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permissiveness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun permissiveness has 1 sense
- permissiveness(n = noun.attribute) tolerance - a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior; Array is a kind of disposition, temperament
has particulars: acceptance, sufferance, toleration, indulgence, lenience, leniency, overtolerance
Derived form adjective permissive2
Antonym: unpermissiveness
THESAURUS
permissiveness
abandon, abandonment, carelessness, charitableness, charity, coddling, condonation, connivance, cosseting, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, disregard, easiness, easygoingness, failure, favoring, forbearance, generousness, gratification, humoring, immoderacy, impotence, imprecision, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incontinence, indifference, indiscipline, indulgence, intemperance, irrepressibility, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxity, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenity, licentiousness, long-suffering, looseness, loosening, magnanimity, mollycoddling, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, noncoercion, nonfeasance, noninterference, nonintimidation, nonperformance, nonrestriction, obliging, omission, overindulgence, overlooking, overpermissiveness, oversight, pampering, patience, pleasing, poor stewardship, procrastination, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, riotousness, slackness, slight, sloppiness, softness, spoiling, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, unconstraint, uncontrol, uninhibitedness, unreserve, unrestraint, unrigorousness, unruliness, unstrictness, wantonness, weakness, wildness, winking
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